The forces reshaping engineering are unlike anything we've seen before. As AI accelerates product development and global value chains evolve, where does India's engineering industry go from here? This keynote offers a reality check on the opportunities, risks, and strategic choices that will define the future.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 9:20am - 9:35am IST Scarlet I&II
As the drivers of economic growth shift from labour and capital to technology, intelligence, and industrial capability, organisations and nations must rethink how they compete. This session explores the forces redefining global leadership and where India's greatest opportunities lie.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 9:35am - 10:00am IST Scarlet I&II
As industries are fundamentally reconfigured, competitive advantage will depend less on reacting to change and more on investing ahead of it. This session explores where leaders should place their biggest bets, from future-ready talent and organisational capabilities to innovation, resilience, and long-term investment, to build businesses that remain relevant, competitive, and positioned for sustained growth.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am IST Scarlet I&II
The near future of engineering will be defined not by scale alone, but by the ability to build at the frontier, faster, smarter, and with greater ownership. As technology cycles compress and competitive advantage shifts to deep capability, this address explores what it will take to lead: from AI-native engineering and system-level thinking to talent, IP, resilience, and execution at global scale.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 10:15am - 10:50am IST Scarlet I&II
India stands at a defining moment in its semiconductor journey. The challenge is not simply to build fabs, but to determine where India can create enduring value across the global semiconductor ecosystem. Should the focus be on manufacturing, design, advanced packaging, equipment, or strategic partnerships? Bringing together diverse perspectives, this debate explores the long-term choices that will shape India's competitiveness, resilience, and leadership in the global chips economy.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 11:25am - 11:50am IST Scarlet I&II
Great products don't happen by accident. They are built through relentless engineering, where every invisible decision, from system architecture to customer experience, shapes performance, reliability, and trust. Discover what it takes to engineer an electric vehicle that feels effortless, because the best engineering is the kind you never notice.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 11:50am - 12:10pm IST Scarlet I&II
As AI commoditises capabilities and lowers barriers to innovation, it is also becoming a powerful enabler of entirely new customer experiences, products, and business models. The competitive advantage will lie not in using AI, but in how organisations harness it to rethink customer value, product strategy, and engineering to build enduring relationships and lasting differentiation.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 12:10pm - 12:45pm IST Scarlet I&II
The true test of innovation is adoption, scale, and impact. As technologies mature faster than ever, this conversation examines what it takes to transform bold ideas into commercially successful products, competitive advantage, and long-term value.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 4:05pm - 4:20pm IST Scarlet I&II
Every major technological breakthrough, from AI and semiconductors to advanced manufacturing and digital infrastructure, depends on one critical enabler: energy. As demand for compute and electrification accelerates, energy is emerging as a strategic driver of innovation, competitiveness, and economic growth. This session explores how India can build intelligent, resilient, and future-ready energy systems that power the next generation of engineering and industry
Tuesday September 1, 2026 4:20pm - 4:45pm IST Scarlet I&II
The next challenge in AI is paying for it. As enterprises move from pilots to production, token costs are rapidly becoming one of the largest drivers of AI economics, influencing everything from customer experience to profitability. This session explores how token economics is reshaping enterprise AI and why organisations that master token efficiency will deliver smarter, more scalable, and commercially sustainable AI.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 4:45pm - 5:05pm IST Scarlet I&II
Breakthrough industries are created when frontier science meets bold engineering and relentless execution. From electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and autonomous aerial mobility to entirely new transportation ecosystems, this session explores what it takes to transform deep-tech innovation into globally competitive products, industries, and economic value.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 5:05pm - 5:20pm IST Scarlet I&II
AI leadership will be defined not just by breakthrough models, but by the infrastructure that powers them. As enterprises and governments accelerate AI adoption, sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming the foundation for trust, resilience, security, and innovation. This session explores how India's AI stack, from compute and cloud to data and platforms must evolve to enable scalable AI, strengthen digital sovereignty, and power the next decade of economic growth.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 5:20pm - 5:40pm IST Scarlet I&II
When existing technology falls short, the answer isn't always to look elsewhere. Sometimes, it is to rethink the problem, develop new science and engineer an entirely new solution. Through its work across advanced systems, materials, electronics, autonomy and emerging technologies, DRDO offers a unique perspective on how ideas move from a difficult requirement to a working capability. This conversation explores the mindset, persistence and engineering ingenuity required to build what the world hasn't built before.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 5:40pm - 6:05pm IST Scarlet I&II
The future will be built on a new layer of infrastructure, AI factories, hyperscale data centres, high-performance compute, intelligent networks, advanced semiconductors, and resilient energy systems. As India accelerates investments across digital infrastructure and AI capabilities, the opportunity is no longer just to support the world's technology ambitions, but to help power them. This session explores how engineering, capital, and ecosystem partnerships can position India at the centre of the next global infrastructure race.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 6:05pm - 6:30pm IST Scarlet I&II
The next chapter of India's growth will be written through engineering, innovation, and bold strategic choices. This session sets the context for the ideas and opportunities that will define the country's innovation economy and long-term competitiveness.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 9:25am - 9:35am IST Scarlet I&II
India has the talent, the market, and the ambition. The next challenge is to build an innovation economy that creates enduring value, not just through scale, but through research, deep-tech, intellectual property, critical technologies, and strategic capabilities. This session explores the choices India must make today to power its next 25 years of growth, competitiveness, and global leadership.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 9:35am - 9:50am IST Scarlet I&II
The next generation of industry leaders will compete not just on technology, but on how intelligently they design products, systems, and experiences. As AI reshapes creation itself, this conversation explores the new principles of design that will define innovation, growth, and market leadership.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 9:50am - 10:10am IST Scarlet I&II
Clean energy is redefining the rules of industrial competitiveness. Beyond the energy transition lies a larger opportunity, to engineer intelligent infrastructure, strengthen manufacturing, and create new engines of growth. What will it take for India to turn this moment into a lasting global advantage?
Wednesday September 2, 2026 10:10am - 10:35am IST Scarlet I&II
Every investor has a handful of decisions that changed the course of their career. Some created extraordinary outcomes. Others became their biggest lessons. A candid conversation on judgment, conviction, timing, and failure.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 10:35am - 11:00am IST Scarlet I&II
Tomorrow's industries will be shaped long before products reach the market. They will be defined by breakthroughs in advanced materials that enable cleaner energy, lighter aircraft, smarter electronics, next-generation optics, and resilient infrastructure. This session explores how material innovation is becoming a strategic driver of the next industrial revolution.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 11:25am - 11:45am IST Scarlet I&II
The future of mobility will be powered by more than electrification. Hydrogen is emerging as a viable pathway for decarbonising heavy transport while strengthening energy security and industrial capability. This session explores the engineering breakthroughs, ecosystem partnerships, and infrastructure required to make hydrogen-powered mobility a commercial reality.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 11:45am - 12:05pm IST Scarlet I&II
Space leadership is no longer defined by launches alone, it is increasingly determined by who builds the scientific infrastructure that enables discovery. From advanced telescope systems and precision engineering to global scientific collaboration, this session explores how India is contributing to the next generation of space infrastructure and what it will take to become a long-term leader in frontier science.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm IST Scarlet I&II
Quantum computing is moving beyond scientific promise to become a strategic capability with the potential to transform industries, accelerate discovery, and redefine computing itself. This session explores what it takes to build a full-stack quantum ecosystem, from hardware and software to applications, and why quantum could become the next frontier of technological and economic leadership.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 12:25pm - 12:55pm IST Scarlet I&II
The future of defence will be shaped not by conventional military strength alone, but by intelligent systems, autonomous platforms, cyber capabilities, space technologies, and software-defined warfare. As the character of warfare undergoes its biggest transformation in decades, India stands at the convergence of two historic shifts, the evolution of future battlefields and the rise of its own defence-industrial ecosystem. This session explores how these parallel transformations are creating an unprecedented opportunity for Indian industry to build sovereign capabilities, accelerate deep-tech innovation, strengthen national security, and position India as a global leader in defence technology.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm IST Scarlet I&II
Every breakthrough begins with someone asking, "What if?" This session explores the mindset behind identifying problems worth solving and turning ideas into solutions with real-world impact.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST Scarlet I&II
Great achievements are rarely the result of a single breakthrough. They are built through years of discipline, resilience, continuous learning, and uncompromising standards. A conversation on what it truly takes to sustain excellence in an increasingly competitive world.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 3:20pm - 3:55pm IST Scarlet I&II
